THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF ARSENE WENGER EVER PUBLISHED When Arsene Wenger arrived at Arsenal in 1996 he was little known to fans at the club & many doubted he could bring back the glory days of George Graham But soon he was transforming the way the team played melding the famous English defensive spine of Tony Adams Martin Keown Lee Dixon Nigel Winterburn & David Seaman with a hugely creative foreign attacking spirit epitomised by Dennis Bergkamp Thierry Henry & Robert Pires that could both outplay & outmuscle their rivals At the same time he introduced new ideas on diet exercise training & tactics which many players believe extended their careers Having won numerous trophies & led the Invincibles to an unprecedented unbeaten league season in 2003-04 Wenger then had to help the Gunners through the next stage of their development when they moved from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium a move that was followed by a nine-year trophy drought Despite the financial constraints he faced he still managed to keep the club playing in the Champions League year after year while remaining true to his philosophy of how the game should be played Some began to question whether he had been left behind despite picking up back-to-back FA Cups in 2014 & 2015 & from some quarters calls grew for him to retire though in May 2017 he signed another two-year deal to stay at the club Now in this updated edition of John Cross's acclaimed biography the author provides a compelling account of the man & his methods He assesses the scale of Wenger's achievements as he reaches 20 years in charge of Arsenal & provides the most complete portrait of the Frenchman yet written